Movie/film suggestions.

I totally enjoyed Kill The Irishman, @slaw , I think I may have commented on it after I watched it.  I don't think I finished Iceman.  Maybe it was too depressing for me, I cannot remember.

@gano , this is my last casting suggestion--I promise.  I know you aren't into a start-studded production, but I was watching Very Scary People on HLN a while ago (they were doing a doc on BTK) with Donnie Wahlberg narrating, and I couldn't help but thinking he (Wahlberg) might be a good Hank Brennan.  A Bostonian who doesn't present as exceptionally flashy, and he sort of has Brennan's look.  Put him in an expensive suit and have his hair styled immaculately and I think he could pull it off.

@immatthewj do not stop with casting suggestions. I enjoy shooting them down :)

I thought the Wahlbergs will enter the picture, eventually, as they should. I think Donnie could pull it off...

@immatthewj do not stop with casting suggestions. I enjoy shooting them down :)

In that case, @gano :

we have got to give Rebecca Pidgeon a part!  She is from Cambridge and she is not exactly what most would consider a big name. I see a few roles she could play that include Jen McCabe or Kerry Roberts.  She is way too old for the part, but I think she would really crush the part of the Canton cop who got hired by the Boston PD, Kelly Devers.  I think Rebecca Pidgeon could recreate that hostile witness attitude, but, as I typed, she is too old.

Back to Brennan--I know you are going to shoot this one down, but I bet Matt Dillon would fit in real well for that.  But he is not from Boston. . . .   Maybe Brennan would agree to play himself?

@immatthewj yes, Rebecca Pigeon is good. Fun fact, I looked her up, her husband is David Mamet who directed Glengarry Glen Ross which has Alec Baldwin.

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more on that how you can be a Bostoner subject:

Now it’s a freak show. It’s as transient as ever. People in Boston proper are unlikely from Massachusetts, maybe a few old families on Comm Ave and Beacon but it’s mostly people who can afford it, and want to be hit by Chinese tourists as they step outside. It has lost a lot of its old charm with all the tattooed, energy drink addict bitcoin licking hipsters. The "real" townies, multi-generation families are out in Medford, Milton, Braintree, etc. in Suburbia. Or Canton. Next week I should probably go over to pick some scenes for aerials. 

@immathewj

Maybe Brennan would agree to play himself? 

Surprisingly I would not be surprised if he did